Avengers Chat

AvengersChat is a demo application based on modern Android tech stacks and Stream Chat SDK.

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Stream Chat SDK

AvengersChat has been built with Stream Chat SDK for implementing messaging systems.

Chat Messaging Tutorial - Basic tutorials for getting started by building a simple messaging app.
Stream Chat Android repository - Official Android SDK for Stream Chat.
Chat Client Documentation - Full documentation of the Chat client for requesting API calls.
UI Components Documentation - Full documentation of the Stream UI Components.
UI Components Sample - Official sample app for building messaging app.

Tech stack & Open source libraries

Minimum SDK level 21.
100% Kotlin based + Coroutines + Flow for asynchronous.
Hilt for dependency injection.
JetPack
- Lifecycle - dispose observing data when lifecycle state changes.
- ViewModel - UI related data holder, lifecycle aware.
- Room Persistence - construct database.
- App Startup - Provides a straightforward, performant way to initialize components at application startup.
Architecture
- MVVM Architecture (View - DataBinding - ViewModel - Model)
- Bindables - Android DataBinding kit for notifying data changes to UI layers.
- Repository pattern
Material Design & Animations - Design system created by Google to help teams build high-quality digital experiences.
Retrofit2 & OkHttp3 - Construct the REST APIs and paging network data.
Sandwich - Construct lightweight http API response and handling error responses.
Moshi - A modern JSON library for Kotlin and Java.
Coil - Image loading for Android backed by Kotlin Coroutines.
TransformationLayout - implementing transformation motion animations.
android-youtube-player - YouTube Player library for Android and Chromecast, stable and customizable.
DiscreteScrollView - Implementing a scrollable list of items.
Timber - Logging.

Supported features

Light and Dark themes.
Different color themes by a chosen character.
100% offline mode supports.
Live stream chat example.
Channel and message lists.
Direct message and group messages.
Mentioned message list.
Custom emoji reactions.
User online/offline status.
User last active date.
User info & direct message dialogs.
Visual animations like transition.
And a lot of features by Stream Android SDK!

TODO

Creating group chats by selecting users.
Access user info dialog everywhere.
Login with a new custom hero.
Push notifications for new messages.
Add unit test cases for all business logic.

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License

Copyright 2021 Stream.IO, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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